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PlayStation VR Review: The Best Way to Bring Virtual Reality Home

Sony’s long-awaited VR goggles make you look less like a total zero and more like an arcade hero—and the system fits in your family room

Sony has a simpler take on virtual reality: Plug a headset into the PlayStation 4 that 40 million families already own. WSJ's Geoffrey A. Fowler shows how it works. Photo: Nathan Olivarez-Giles/ The Wall Street Journal

It’s only October, and I’ve already discovered what your teenagers will beg for this Christmas: Sony PlayStation VR.

It’s the best way to bring virtual reality home right now. It’s also the funkiest: Strap on these light-up goggles and glow sticks, and you look like a character from “Tron.” Sold in a $500 kit, the neon gear’s real purpose is helping any old PlayStation 4 to track your head and hands—so you can literally be in the middle of a game. Look through the goggles, and you’re Batman reaching for a grappling hook...